What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

My Scott 2017 values this as $90.00, but still an excellent find! Good eye.

I should have specified the 2018 Scott U.S. Specialized Catalogue.

Trainwreck, great find! I'm a PNC collector so I always find stamps like yours interesting. I'm not sure if I have that one in my own collection, will have to check.

Transcribed an excellent article about Costa Rica's Guanacaste Overprints http://estampillascr.com/blog/guana...-overprints/

purchased $150.00 in clearance circuits from the APS

I went to the post office to mail a priority mail package. I requested to use stamps but soon realized that they do not want to apply them. If you do not apply them before handing it to them, you only get a meter. I need to get in line, ask for $18 in stamps, apply, then hand to clerk. I wanted to use 2 priority mail stamps but did not have any at home.

On one occasion (above), I used a sheet of discounted face value PSA postage that I'd bought at a stamp show.

If you only knew the addressee - who is old enough to be my mother - you'd know that I got the stamps right (if not the gift).

Take note that I 'did the math', and added a handy check mark, so that any fundamentally disinterested postal employee would knowingly nod their head and move on.

On other occasions, I happily gave the USPS Stamp Store the lousy buck-and-a-quarter and had them hand-deliver a couple of Priority Mail stamps.

But try to pry postage out of a postal window clerk? Not for me, lad

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Yeah, Once I gave a package loaded with stamps and the clerk seemed challenged to add up all the stamps. I think she was more afraid of making a mistake.

And/or afraid of being suckered. People who cannot do math are often like people who cannot read: always a little wary of being found out.

The only reason that I had Lucy handy was that, earlier this week, I had finally bought a box of Avery-Quick Load Sheet Protectors ...

https://www.staples.com/Avery-Quick...oduct_923674

... and sorted all of my discounted face value postage by denomination.

These sheets & booklets had been in chronological bags & piles - eg, From WSS 2016 - making them remarkably inaccessible, for all that they were, after all, right there in front of me.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I have used the regular top load sheet protectors for self-adhesive sheets.

My latest acquisition for my Great Britain collection is a complete set of FDC's of the first set of Queen Elizabeth Wildings. Scott 292-308, or SG 515-531 issued 1952-54. A comparison of the numbering shows how many more varieties the SG catalogue lists

Bought this beautiful pair with imperf error just today...

Just finished cataloging & placing in albums my Washington Press Artcraft FDCs, all 207 of them. Took about 3-days. I wish I had a little more $$ so I could have made a bigger purchase. I realized about $200 CV for $130.

Yesterday filled my recently hand-built stamp shelves with the more attractive of the albums etc. Those old wooden file boxes are perfect for glassines. Pretty pleased with the outcome!

I spent time sorting through some topical- stamp collecting on stamps. Fun stuff here (for me at least!)